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PLERD_HOME could be an environment variable #49

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@taskboy3000

Inspired from Perl, Java, et al, plerd could have a notion of a home directory which it can at least find the conf file. That way, the following "just works":

$ plerdall --init (accept defaults)
$ export PLERD_HOME=$HOME/plerd
$ plerdall # any action

This can be implemented like:

if (!defined $config_file && exists $ENV{PLERD_HOME}) {
$config_file = "$ENV{PLERD_HOME}/conf/plerd.conf";
}

Given that maybe only the config file lives there, the better option might be to have the default config file be $HOME/.plerd.conf?

That implementation is slicker:

if (!defined $config_file && -e "$ENV{HOME}/.plerd.conf") {
$config_file = "$ENV{HOME}/.plerd.conf";
}

Something to ponder.

Whatever you decide, after a user runs plerdall, I would suggest that plerdall should just work if all defaults were accepted.

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